Stanley McChrystal

1 week ago | myemail.constantcontact.com | Stanley McChrystal |James Stavridis |James Mann |Eve Sampson

Quotes of the Day:“For, as Kissinger wrote in A World Restored, “the most fundamental problem of politics… is not the control of wickedness but the limitation of righteousness.”[ 29] It is self-righteousness that lies at the heart of the worst tyrannies: the belief that your opponents can be destroyed because they are in your eyes fundamentally illegitimate. This is what the vast anarchy across the whole of Russia finally wrought.

Sep 27, 2024 | iolaregister.com | Stanley McChrystal

Some deeply consequential decisions are starkly simple. That is how I view our upcoming presidential election. And that is why I have already cast my ballot for character — and voted for Vice President Kamala Harris. As a citizen, veteran and voter, I was not comfortable with many of the policy recommendations that Democrats offered at their convention in Chicago or those Republicans articulated in Milwaukee. My views tend more toward the center of the political spectrum.

Sep 3, 2023 | cbsnews.com | Stanley McChrystal

Political divisions are tearing our nation apart. Perhaps not since the last decade before our Civil War have differing perspectives so threatened the very fabric of American society. Many of us have seen similar forces in places like Iraq and Afghanistan produce unspeakable pain and tragedy and know that something must be done. But what?

Sep 3, 2023 | flipboard.com | Stanley McChrystal

9 hours agoFor the first time, the arm of St. Jude will leave Italy and tour churches, schools, prisons, and more across the United States beginning this month, a Catholic evangelization ministry announced this week. The relic of one of Jesus' 12 apostles, considered to be the patron saint of hopeless or …

Jun 20, 2023 | foreignpolicy.com | Tal Trachtman Alroy |Paul Scharre |Stanley McChrystal

Paul Scharre is the Executive Vice President and Director of Studies at the Center for a New American Security. He is the author of Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. Scharre previously worked in the U.S. Office of the Secretary of Defense, where he worked to create policies on unmanned and autonomous systems and emerging weapons technologies.